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Hackensack River Fireworks

fireworks from hackensack

Well, it wasn’t my most successful trip, what with vast unexpected crowds in Johnson Park, rain, darkness. Still 7 of us managed to hit the water and see the fireworks after a quick trip home for extra rain gear. At … Read more and see pictures

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Vast crowds on the Great Swamp

Beautiful day, beautiful trip, thanks once again Bob. Swelled by resent rains, the Great Swamp was several feet above it’s usually muddy early summer levels, allowing us to short cut a few of the s-bends, but also making us deal … Read more and see pictures

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Cliffside Park at Ridgefield Park Girls Soccer

OK…2 mediocre teams but a beautiful new park and a beautiful day. Ridgefield Park dominated but Cliffside Park was able to tie it up it in the final minutes of regulation. Most of the way thru the second overtime Ridgefield … Read more and see pictures

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Ramapo River post Irene

Log jam on the Ramapo

Like visiting an old friend whose changed a lot….probably don’t need to tell any North Jersey Paddles that Irene made some changes. The old broken dam south of Suffern has a bad sweeper in the fast water. It is viable from the approach. I … Read more and see pictures

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Wallkill River Saturday Sept. 17th with HRCKC

Saturday the 17th promised to be a beautiful day,  so despite Martin’s warnings seven of us showed up at the Sussex Queen diner. In Martin’s words “it’s high but ok. but with probable carrying/climbing/dragging over blowdowns and strainers – may … Read more and see pictures

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Irene in Vermont

Tree down on Otter Creek north of Wallingford Vermont

Visited Vermont and also saw some destruction and good examples of how natural systems can recover more quickly. Parks are a great thing to put in a flood prone area….tennis court is full of dried mud, a few muddy places … Read more and see pictures

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Passiac River Flooding thru Paterson and Fairlawn, NJ

Paddled down the Passiac thru Paterson just as it was coming down. Though I saw (and shot) a few flooding homes mostly I saw inconvenience, not destruction, with streets blocked off, parks, yards  and swimming pools flooding. When floodplains contain … Read more and see pictures

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Surviving Irene

We have survived. As we live only a block from the tidal part of the Hackensack River so our area had a voluntary evacuation….a voluntary evacuation? What’s the difference between that and a vacation? We did move the car out … Read more and see pictures

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Delaware River with HRCKC

On Saturday, August 13th, quite a few of us intreprid souls met at the Water Gap….we first convoyed up to Worthington State Park a few miles (and that one darn 3 minute stoplight), spent a while unloading, convoyed down to … Read more and see pictures

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Ramapo River with Hackensack Canoe and Kayak Club

On June 25th 5 intrepid souls joined me for a little trip down the Ramapo. On Wednesday several inches of rain in an hour or so had pushed the gauges up above 4000 cfs (flood stage)  but by Friday morning … Read more and see pictures

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